Archive | January, 2016

Zero Hedge has brought to our attention a lot of stuff about the refugee/migrant crisis unfolding in Europe. First coming to our attention was the New Years eve attacks by men of “arab origin” in Cologne Germany but this was not an isolated incident as there was similar outbreaks in Stuttgart and Hamburg but that […]

Markets are in turmoil as result of this action, especially as Kuroda himself just said a couple of weeks earlier that he wasn’t going to use negative rates. A quick trip to the Davos meeting with all wealthy hoy-p’loy and he changes his mind, no doubt due to pressure from someone to try it out […]

Yes, yes. Of course Russia is a major problem, a real aggressor nation and Putin is responsible for everything bad in the world. NATO the vassal of Washington has some real stooges heading it who can twist the truth any way they like, but imagine this….. What if Russia had troops, weapons, tanks, aircraft stacked […]

Lets hope that New Zealand already has trade staff in Iran negotiating to supply the food products NZ makes. Iran will buy 73 long-haul and 45 medium-haul Airbus passenger planes and set up a joint venture with French car-maker Peugeot Citroen. Both deals are part of a total of 20 agreements signed after a meeting […]

It’s hard to believe that years after Libya was’ liberated’ and ‘freedom choices’ were bestowed on Libyans that once again the US and UK are about to go in to defeat ISIS from taking control of Libya’s oil reserves. Washington is exploring options for intervening in Libya, citing reports of Islamic State extremists operating in […]

The story from Zero Hedge: Back in November, before the flames were even extinguished on the Su-24 Ankara shot down near the Syrian border, Vladimir Putin made a startling assertion. Turkey, he said, is funding ISIS. The startling part about Putin’s contention wasn’t that Turkey effectively functions as a state sponsor of terror. We already knew that. […]

Peter Schiff has been warning of major financial issues for a long time now, years actually but with trillions sloshing around on bank balance sheets due to QE the Wall Street party rolled on an on. It seems some of the financial elite are now re programming their thinking and being prepared to say it […]

This article first published in the Wall Street Journal indicates that even some of the hard-core establishment are doubting the future “The Fed’s monetary policy of extraordinarily low interest rates helped create the asset bubbles in stock and commodity prices that are now bursting. In retrospect, the Fed’s rate hike last month will likely be […]